An oversized trailer for the fifth season of CW’s The 100 has transported us years into the future, where an epic war is set to take place over the only plot of land that hasn’t gone to hell yet. Where’s Littlefoot when you need him?

As much as Black Lightning might want you to cheer for its titular hero from week to week, it can be a little frustrating watching him repeatedly come so close to figuring out one of the many mysteries he’s investigating only to miss all of the glaring signs right there in front of him. Thank goodness he’s not the…

Over the course of a single season of television, the CW’s Legends of Tomorrow have accomplished what it’s taken everyone in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe 10 years and 18 movies to do: track down six powerful MacGuffins that are the keys to stopping a powerful enemy from beyond who threatens life on Earth. And because…

Black Lightning is arguably one of the smartest, strongest comic book adaptations on television right now, but that’s not to say the show hasn’t been without its weaknesses. It’s been weird, for example, that everyone’s been keeping these huge, conspicuous secrets from one another right in the open.

So many moments of melodrama in Barry Allen’s life come down to him wailing that he, a man who tells us he is the fastest man alive all the time, just isn’t fast enough to save the day sometimes. But last night’s episode proved that he really actually is more than fast enough, he just needs to be smarter about it—a…

By now it should come as no surprise that when given the opportunity, Black Lightning never misses the chance to inject elements of real world conversations about police brutality and systemic racism into its plot. In case you’d forgotten that fact during the show’s brief hiatus, “Three Sevens: The Book of Thunder” is…

Black Lightning is unique amongst all of the CW’s superhero series is that it began at a point in its titular hero’s life long after he’d become a crime-fighting vigilante. Jefferson Pierce is a grown man who we’ve only seen rediscovering his Black Lightning identity after a much-needed hiatus.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow might be a comic book show about a group of time-traveling heroes (only don’t call them that), but it also includes some history lessons. Of course, you have to take them all with a giant grain of salt—not only because a lot of events are ignored or changed, but also because the show has…

Though death and loss have been big parts of Black Lightning since the beginning of the series, the past few episodes were full of enough hope and optimism to almost convince you that maybe, just maybe, Jefferson Pierce might be able to get a handle on the crime wave sweeping Freeland. But the reality of the situation…

Even though CW president Mark Pedowitz has already stated flatly that Black Lightning isn’t technically connected to the rest of the Arrowverse, an exchange between two characters on this week’s Black Lightning episode suggests a rather interesting way that all might—might—change in the future.

No matter how cool they might be, a superhero’s really only as good as their most nefarious enemy. The 100 has proven to be a compelling threat for the city of Freeland, but Black Lightning needed a truly horrific enemy to illustrate that Jefferson Pierce might not win his war. This week, the show delivered.

Poor Wally West. It’s been two seasons since Keiynan Lonsdale made his debut as Kid Flash, and since then... he’s not actually had much to do. Time and time again, Wally has been pushed aside—so much so that he’s temporarily left The Flash, although he’ll soon be joining Legends of Tomorrow. But it’s baffling that…

For three seasons of iZombie, the undead virus has largely been kept under wraps. That is, until the climax of season three lead to a massive outbreak that’s seen Seattle walled off as a social experiment/quarantine zone. But even with a whole new status quo, this trailer shows Liv and her friends are still up for…

Years before the events of Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce left the vigilante game behind after realizing there’s no real end to a superhero’s struggles. But what happens when a hero’s crusade to protect the public is both a calling and an addiction they can’t kick?

The Flash’spost-break return started off on the wrong foot last week with a return to the sort of mind-numbingly dull “drama” that made most of its third season such a drag in the first place. Thankfully, last night’s Flash put a spotlight on Hartley Sawyer’s wonderful Ralph Dibny as a reminder that this show is at…

Campy TV is good. You know this if you’ve ever watched the ‘60s Batman, Xena, or a Ryan Murphy show. There’s no need to label it a “guilty pleasure.” Really good camp TV balances the goofy side of camp with something that is often thrilling and sometimes even emotionally affecting. It can walk that fine line with…

Black Lightning isn’t the first television show to prominently feature black superheroes and it also isn’t the first cape series with a predominately black cast. And yet, Black Lightning is telling a very particular story about black lives that’s unlike anything else on the CW right now and it feels very much like…

Like all of DC’s metahuman superheroes who save the world on the CW every week, Black Lightning has an array of abilities allowing him to fight crime in ways others can’t. While all of Black Lightning’s powers are cool, they also beg the question: “How are you not killing people with them?” We asked Cress Williams,…